Water-indicating gage-cock device



J. B..SNYDER.

WATER INDIGATING GAGE 000K DEVICE.

(Model) Patented Oct. 11,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH B. SNYDER, OF MONTPELIER, 01110.

WATER-INDICATING GAGE-COCK DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 248,226, dated October 11, 1.881. Application filed December 22, 1880. (Model) H v To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB B. SNYDER, of Montpelier, in the county of Williams and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Water Indicating Gage Cock Devices, of Which-the following isa full, clear, and exact description.

The invention consists in combining water gages and pipes with a plate separating the steam and water chambers of a boiler, said plate being provided with upwardly-projecting tubes.

Figure l is a sectional side view of a boiler with the improved device attached. Fig. 2 is a sectional end elevation of the same on line a at, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, A represents the boiler mounted on wheels B.

O is the boiler fire-box, andD D represent the fines through which the products of combustion pass from the fire box G into the smoke-passage E and out of thesmoke-stack F.

Above the surface of the water or water-line G a horizontal flanged plate or diaphragm, H, is securely fastened by rivets a a to the sides and ends of the boiler A. Thisplate His designed to be fixed about three or four inches above the top of the fire-box O. The tubes 1) b passing up through the plate H serve to conduct the steam as fast as it is generated from the water-space below the said plate H to the steamspace above it. The tubes 1) that are nearest the opposite ends of the boiler A extend upward nearly to the top of the said boilerA and are then turned inward at right angles toward the boiler center, their horizontal extensions nearly approaching each other.

I I represent the watergages that are socured on the outer ends of pipes I l, which extend about half-way into the boiler Afrom the front thereof and have their inner ends supported by a plate or hanger, P, which is fastened on the plate H. One of these pipes, I, is designed to be above and the others below the said plate H. By entering these pipes 1 to about the longitudinal center of the boiler Athe engineer can always ascertain with suflicieut accuracy the depth of Water therein, no

clined endwise. These water-gages I I may be attached in proper position to a side of the boiler about midway between its ends, that theengineermaytherebydeterinine the amount of water in the boiler, whatever position the boiler may be in.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination, with the boilerA and plate H, provided with steam-tubes b b, of the water gages and pipes I l, substantially as herein shown and described, whereby the depth of as set forth.

JACOB B. SNYDER.

Vitnesses:

GEORGE STRAYER, N. 0. JOHNSTON.

matter how much said boiler A may be in-.

water in the boiler can always be ascertained,

It is hereby certified that the name of the patentee of Letters Patent No. 248,226, granted October 11, 1881, for an improvement in Water-Indicating Gage-Cock Devices, was incorrectly written and printed Joseph B. Snyder, whereas it should have been written and printed Jacob B. Snyder; that the proper correction has been made in the files and records pertaining to the case in the Patent Office, and that the same should be read in the Letters Patent to make it conform thereto.

Signed, countersigned, and sealed this 2d day of June, A. D. 1885.

[SEAL] H. L. MULDROW,

Acting Secretary of the Interior. Oountersigned R0131. B. VANCE,

Acting Cmmnissioner of Patents. 

